Supercharged, Customized, Amiga 1000 Premiere at AmiWest

[kwoodall]

At the Nova Design booth at AmiWest this weekend Kermit Woodall will premiere his latest project:

The retrosystem Amiga 1000 Project!

In a nutshell this project marries a classic Amiga 1000 case with ultra-small x86 based hardware. The Amiga 1000 case was restored and highly specialized components were used to stuff a full x86 based system inside. A complete power supply, 30gb hard drive, cdrom, floppy drive, motherboard and more!

This system is Amithlon compatible, Windows compatible, QNX compatible and Linux compatible. It includes TV-out like the classic Amiga and also offers S-Video, Firewire/DV ports, and much more.

You can see this system at www.retrosystem.com as well as a preview of the other models that will be coming in a few weeks!

Kermit Woodall
Nova Design, Inc.
retrosystem

[redrumloa]

Hehe weird, this is the exact oposite of the project I've been meaning to do for years, an A1000 in a modern ATX tower with gfx card, sound card, 040(or 060) etc:-P

[System]

Neet, too bad the Original A1000 wasn't crammed in there too .. I thought it was for a bit.

Never the less desktops are cool .. they save so much space! (When you put your monitor on top)

/me still trying to cram PC + disks and printer on the same desk two amigas each with a monitor and all software used to fit

[yssing]

I would run Amithlon on it :-)

But neet...

A bit to expensive, but this gives me some ideas of what to do with my old A1000 :-)

[Lo]

This box must be noisy, need 2 fans?
 the original 1000 had no fan,(I think) the good
quiet old days of the 80's.  :-)

[yssing]

IIRC the A1000 had a fan in the powersupply..

[redrumloa]

quiet old days of the 80's

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[redrumloa]

IIRC the A1000 had a fan in the powersupply

Yes it does, but it's quiet.

[uncharted]

Cool idea!

I wonder where the DVD drive goes on the systems.  I would imagine that it goes under the cartridge flap on the NES, but on the Atari it must be a problem.

[The_Editor]

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[BouncingAyatollah]

Bet they can't squeeze a full PC into a ZX-81 or an original spectrum! :-)

[Lo]

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I think it took a few days to figure out that inserting
a floppy would shut up the drive :-D

[amigamad]

What a waste of an a 1000 these machines are colectors items.these machines are  expensive pc,s too .I would love an a1000 and a 3000/4000 tower the only machine which is colectable i own is my cdtv. :-?  :-?  :-?  :-)

[blubbe]

An Original A1000 would be of more worth..
Like filling a can of beer with lemonade

[Rob]

Those boards look almost small enough to fit in a 3.5 drive bay.
That would be some idea for an Amithlon kit that you could fit into
and network with your existing Classic system.

Might be a bit messy round the front though.